If you were to line up all the Architects in the world end to end they would circle the globe 17.45 times. Architectural firms would then lay-off 202,175 interns to reduce the distance to an even 17 times around the globe.

If you were to assemble the professional basketball players who will later become Architects, you would not have enough to play the game, and they would drop the ball.

If you divide the number of Architects who play the accordian by the number who play the banjo you get 1… and a 2… and a 3

Number of Architects it takes to screw in a light bulb? – just one *

If you total the amount of money given to Architectural interns as a bonus in 2010, you will not be able to stop laughing.

The number of retired Architects is less than the number of Architects who do not realize they are retired.

It takes 5 pounds of Architects to fill a 5 pound sack **

The first time you realize you want to be an Architect minus the number of times you wish you had realized you wanted to be anything but an Architect equals the number of times you need to reread this sentence.

If an Architect is traveling east at 25 miles per hour and an Engineer is traveling North by Northeast at 5 miles an hour, the Architect is 200 times more likely to assume the Engineer is off course, and moving too slow.

When you remove an even number of Architects from a project, an odd number of Architects will wonder why they have to work on this crappy building when that ass from Columbia gets to work on the Danish Pavilion.

The number of corners in a room is inversely proportional to the clients budget.

The number of curves an Architect will draw in a given day is always greater than the number of curves an Architect wants to draw in a given day.

The distance from an Architect’s office to the scene of a seemingly random Homicide involving a certain newspaper reporter (who shall remain nameless) is not really important, actually, nevermind.

The last time an Architect refuses to take a job equals the first time an Architect realizes what he really wants his practice to focus on minus the number of seconds it takes to call the client back and beg for another chance.

If you toss an Architect, an Engineer, and a building inspector off the edge of a building, the client will not notice which one hits the ground first.

If a tree falls in a forest, the Architect will…

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* while holding the bulb, the world slowly revolves around the Architect

The lightbulb joke is my favorite. It got a full 30 seconds of guffaw outta me : ) Thanks … it feels to be heading toward a career that is considered a joke … and still be able to laugh about it.

http://profiles.google.com/lizadeeza Liza Davis

The lightbulb joke is my favorite. It got at least 30 seconds of GUFFAW outta me. I am glad that I can laugh at all this, even though I am pursuing design studies that head me toward a joke in careers, even more than architecture … Interior Design, although the field is becoming more focussed upon Interior Architecture than decorating. I guess I will giggle my way to oblivion.

http://www.lifeofanarchitect.com Bob Borson

Pretty sure one pound of architect could easily fill a five pound sack … and then some

Anonymous

I’ve never known an architect to be less than 5 pounds full of **coughing**…nevermind.

http://funandfit.org AlexandraFunFit

Number of seconds before I fell out of my chair because I was laughing so hard at these two:
If you total the amount of money given to Architectural interns as a bonus in 2010, you will not be able to stop laughing.

The number of retired Architects is less than the number of Architects who do not realize they are retired.
Answer: 0 because I prepared in advance by lying down on the floor before reading this. In some other life (where I understand math and have spatial awareness) I want to be an architect just to test out some of your theories.

http://www.coffeewithanarchitect.com Jody Brown

*cough*

http://www.coffeewithanarchitect.com Jody Brown

same true for a drum full-a-whoop-ass

http://www.coffeewithanarchitect.com Jody Brown

oblivion equals infinity, right? I think that’s a number so it counts…
Besides, what good is a career if you can’t laugh about it? Don’t answer that…

http://www.coffeewithanarchitect.com Jody Brown

witty reply in 3, 2, 1 …

http://twitter.com/rustylong Rusty Long

Great stuff. What *is* with that guy from Columbia? He gets all the cool projects.

http://www.coffeewithanarchitect.com Jody Brown

Thanks R!,
btw there’s a 85% chance that I’ll let the air out of the Columbia guys tires tonight…